Ashish

KNOWN not to take life too seriously, New Generation designer <a href="#" onclick="window.open('/vogue_daily/popup.asp?keyword=ashish','search', 'toolbar=0,status=no,menuBar=0,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=250,height=450,left=10,top=100')" class="maintextimageu"> Ashish Gupta gave us polka dots, multicoloured stripes and bright skeletal prints on the catwalk for autumn/winter 2005-6. He dusted everything – tweeds, lace and sweatshirts – with sequins and made a couple of serious points with tops bearing captions such as "Children Are Special" or "Quality Is Caring". Mostly these were clothes for bouncing around and showing off in, though, with a mass of net beneath Fifties full skirts that proved the point. (February 14 2005, PM)